Re: reiserfs woody commits
"John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu> writes:
> i have been working on integrating reiserfs support into the
> boot-floppies.
>
> it was suggested to me to make reiserfs a module, suitable for use with
> initrd, instead of yes another flavour.
>
> i am personally opposed to making yet another flavour, because that adds
> more complications to the end user (further confusion as to which boot
> disks to grab)
Here here!
> i like even less the idea of initrd
> 1) that would require all of our kernels to have the reiserfs
> patch (this will be a non-issue for 2.4.1 and above)
>
> 2) i don't like initrd.
>
> i am testing my patches against the CVS tree snapshot as of Feb 9
> 14:07, PST. after i am certain things are good, i will make the
> patchfiles available.
>
> i am quite uncertain how to go about placing the patches into the main
> CVS tree, but i will worry about that one a bit later.
You can commit them to the woody branch at your discretion. If you
don't have CVS read/write access and want it, I can give it to you.
Use my Debian PGP key to send a desired username and password.
Alternatively, you can send patches against the woody branch to this
list and someone should apply it.
> some areas to be worked on:
> when making a reiserfs partition, there is no badblock scan, and
> the user must answer yes to the mkreiserfs program (no --force
> option)
Is it possible to get a bug filed on mkreseiserfs so that it works
better in this "scripted" context?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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